On August 14, the California Assembly Appropriations Committee passed SB 212. Currently, only charter cities and charter counties in California may use ranked choice voting for their own elections. The bill extends that to all local governments. Thanks to Steve … Continue reading
On August 14, James Hall, the independent candidate for U.S. House in an Alabama special election in 2003, filed this reply brief in the U.S. Supreme Court. Hall v Merrill, 18-1362. … Continue reading
The U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether to hear Hall v Merrill, 18-1362, on October 1, 2019. This is the Alabama ballot access case in which a U.S. District Court struck down the 3% petition for independent candidates for U.S. … Continue reading
The Upstate Jobs Party, a New York party that is not ballot-qualified, has some nominees in the 2019 local partisan elections. It has filed a lawsuit in State Supreme Court, Onondaga County, over the law that says its nominees can’t … Continue reading
Jeremy B. White here writes for Politico that a side effect of the California tax returns-ballot bill, if it is not invalidated in court, would be to lower Republican turnout in the March 2020 primary. Because California has its primary … Continue reading
